Conveyer toy



May 4 1926. 1,583,350

C. GUISCHARD CONVEYER TOY Filed Oct. 8 1925 13 1 til I3 v a Z Z3 $15. E o a INVEtiTOR akzwckani.

' ATTORNEY To all whom it may concern."

UNITED... STATE orrnnnns eorsonnan, or 'nrorrivronn HILL, new YORK.

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Application filed. October 8 1925. Serial No. 61,185.

provide a conveyor used as a toy and having for its essential characteristics the construction of a cable spanned between two points distant from one another and is adapted to be shifted by tautening of the cable. The cable serves as a guideway for asuspended bucket and is adapted vthru the construction of the toy to cause the suspended bucket to travel to and fro, this travel being accomplished by inclining and declining the cable when the bucket has reached the lowest level at the end of its travel. Y

Another object is to provide a toy conveyer having a spanned cable and a bucket suspended from said cable which is adapted to move to and fro and at one end of its travel, a mechanism is provided for tilting the bucket'to empty it of itscontents.

Referring briefly to the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevational view of the toy, showing the spanned cable at its normal angle of declination. v Figure 2 is a viewsimilar to Figure 1 showing the spanned cable at an angle 0 inclination and illustrating the method of dumping the bucket.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of Figure 1. Referring in detail to the drawing, the numeral 10 indicates the base upon which the entire structure of the toy is mounted. At one end of the base, a pier ll'extends upwardly and'is propped-by abrace 12. EX- tending upwardly from the upper end of the pier is a vided with a stop knob 14 at its upper end. A yoke member 15 passes around the sides of the staff and the arms 16'of'the yoke have a stud 17 mounted therein on which a grooved guide roller 18 is mounted. A weight 19 is provided on the bottom of the oke member where the arms join and adapted to normally cause the entire yoke member to ride downwardly on the periphery of the stafi 13, the roller 18 being the member that contacts with the staff. An eyelet 20 is fixed to one end of the yoke 15 and is secured thereto a flexible cable 21.

residing at The main object of this invention is to flexiblestaff 13 which is pro- This fiexibleflcable extends across the base from the yoke 15 normally atan angleof in-. '1

clination and is paid about the grooved pulley ears being fixed to a post 2 1 positioned at the opposite'ond of the base pulley 22 and then courses downwardly as shown at 25, being paid a the lower position a quarter turn around a pulley 26 and then passes again to the pier 11. 'At aconvenient position on the pier, a stud. 27 is fixed. On the stud, a handwheel 28 is ro-. tatably mounted. This hand wheel is pro- 22, which is supported in ears 23-, the

10,. Theflexa ible cable 21 is paid a quarter turn about the vided with a hub 29 and extending radially from the hub is an 'arin30, to whose outer end, a returning length 31 of the cable is secured. On the periphery of the wheel 28,

a pair of.'- grooves are formed. vThese grooves, 1nd1oated by the; numeral 31, are cooperated with by aresilient arm 32 which is fired to t-heLside of the'base'10, the arm,

when in one of the grooves serving as a stop I to prevent a hand wheel from being rotated inadvertently. v

On the end 2101" grooved roller or pulley 32 is seated and pivotally suspended from this roller are a pair of straps .33 and 3 1 from which an inverted triangular bucket-'35 hangs pivot-" ally suspended. A hopper 36 having a funnel 37 at its lowerend, is mounted on the base 10 opposite to the pier 11 and from the forward or end nearest the pier, a dumping.

ledge 38extends upwardly. The upper edge of this dumping ledge is adapted to be en gaged by a downwardly extending ear39 Iornied at the junction of the sides of the bucket 35 and causes tilting of said bucket when so engaged.

The toy is constructed to form an entertaining and educational toy for children. When the staff is in normal upright posi tion, the upper length of the flexible cable 21 is at an angle of declination, that is, being lower near the pier and higher near the post 2 1. In this position, the pulley 32 res-ts approximately in the position as shown in Figure 1. In order to cause the bucket and the entire apparatus suspended from the pulley 32 to ride in the opposite direction, it is necessary to incline this end of the cable 21. The inclination of the cable length 21 from the pier 11 downwardly is accomplished by rotating the hand wheel 28 by manipulating and grasping the the flexible cable, a

of the staff 13 knob 40. Rotating this knob-in a counterclockwise direction 90 degrees, likewise rotates the arm from the vertical to a horizontal position, thus pulling upon the entire length of flexible cable. In pulling on this flexible cable, the fleXibe staff 18 is deflected to one side toward the post 24, as indicated in Figure 2. As the staff is deflected, the pulley 18 rides upwardly upon the periphery to an inclined position shown in Figure 2, when the yoke 15 and pulley 18 rides upwardly on the staff and the cable length 21 begins to incline from the pier downwardly, the bucket convcyer begins to roll toward the opposite end of the base 1.0 and gains momentum until the cable arrives at its final degree of inclination.

' When the bucket 35, suspended from the pulley 32, nears the hopper 36, the car 39 on the bucket engages the ledge 38 and causes said bucket to tilt until its contents are emptied into the hopper 36. When this operation has been completed, the hand wheel'again'is rotated, but in an opposite, a clockwise direction, which permits lengthening of the ca stafl to resume its vertical position, as shown in Figure 1, the length of cable 21 thereafter again finding itself at an angle of declination, at which the suspended bucket rides from the position adjacent the hopper to the opposite end of the base toward the pier 11.

I claim c 1. A toy conveyer comprising a base, a vertical and flexible stafl extending from one end of said base, a rigid post at the opposite end of said base, a carriage adapted ole end Ql-and allows the to ride Vertically on said staff comprising a yoke, a pulley mounted rotatably in said yoke, a cable fixed to the yoke and spanning the distance betweenthe post and staff, and means connected to said cable for deflecting the'stafl to incline said cable.

2. In a toy conveyer, a base, a flexible staffextending upwardly from one end of said base, from the opposite end of said base, a wheeled carriage adapted to ride vertically on said stall, said carriage comprising a yoke adapted to pass around'said'stafl, a pulley rotatably mounted between'said yoke and adapted to ride upon the surface of said stafl', a cable fixed. to said pulley extending horizontally toward the rigid post, said cable being adapted'to-have' one end lifted or lowered by raising or-lowering said yoke, said cable when pulled being adapted to deflect the staflto raise said cable to an angular position, and means for pulling said cable,

3. In a'toy 'conveye'r, a base, a vertical rigid post'at one end of said base, a tapering flexible stafl mounted on said base opposite tothe post, a yokefa grooved pulley on said yoke'adapted to ride upwardly or downwardly on said staff. a weight integral with said yoke being adapted to cause the yoke and pulley to ride downwardly on the staff when the latter is vertical, a cable stretched between said post and yoke, said cable when pulled being adapted to flex the staff toward the-post and cause the yoke to ride upwardly upon the flexed staff to incline saidca'ble.

In testimony whereof I affix m 7 signature.

CHARLES GUISCHARD.

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